any more than the grizzly bear), but
Jaqueline could not climb. She merely stood, pale and trembling. She
had saved Dick, but at an enormous sacrifice, for the sword and the Seven-
league Boots were lying on the trampled grass. He had not brought the
Cap of Darkness, and, in the shape of a wren, of course he could not
carry away the other articles. Dick was rescued, that was all, and the
Princess Jaqueline had sacrificed herself to her love for him.

The Giant picked himself up and pulled himself together, as we said, and
then approached Jaqueline in a very civil way, for a person of his
breeding, head in hand.

"Let me introduce myself," he said, and mentioned his name and titles.
"May I ask what _you_ are doing here, and how you came?"

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Poor Jaqueline threw herself at his feet, and murmured a short and not
very intelligible account of herself.

"I don't understand," said the Giant, replacing his head on his
shoulders. "What to do with you, I'm sure I don't know. '_Please don't
eat me_,' did you say? Why, what do you take me for? I'm not in that
line at all; low, _I_ call it!"

Jaqueline was somewhat comforted at these words, dropped out of the
Giant's lips from a considerable height.

"But they call you 'The Giant who does not Know when he has had Enough,'"
said Jaqueline.

"And proud of the title: not enough of fighting. Of _punishment_ I am a
glutton, or so my friends are pleased to say. A brace of oxen, a drove
of sheep or two, are enough for me," the Giant went on complacently, but
forgetting to mention that the sheep and the oxen were the property of
other people. "Where am I to put you till your friends come and pay your
ransom?" the Giant asked again, and stared at Jaqueline in a perplexed
way. "I can't take you home with me, that is out of the question. I
have a little woman of my own, and she's not very fond of other ladies;
especially, she would like to poison them that have good looks."

Now Jaqueline saw that the Giant, big as he was, courageous too, was
afraid of his wife!

"I'll tell you what I'll do; I'll hand you over to a neighbour of mine,
who is a bachelor."

"A bachelor giant; would that be quite proper?" said Jaqueline, trying to
humour him.

"He's not a giant, bless you; he's a queer fellow, it is not easy to say
what he is. He's the Earthquaker, him as shakes the earth now and then,
and brings the houses about people's